storybooks and happy endings.
Sometimes, its just so overrated. Dont you think? Im not saying im not happy that the GOOD always THRIUMPS over EVIL, but sometimes..too much of a happy ending is sooo...I dont know. doesn't feel so right.
Let me give you a classic example. Snow white and the seven dwarfs.
- why does snow white have to wake up? she ATE the poison apple. SO DIE FOR GOODNESS SAKE! the dwarfs had already seen to the evil witchs death and so that means GOOD had already won. why does snow white have to wake uP!?! poison is POISON. if you're dead, YOU'RE DEAD. no stupid KISS can wake you up and all the poison just SOMEHOW, MIRACULOUSLY dissapear. stupid prince and his stupid kiss of life. JUST GO ARUND KISSING ALL THE DEAD THEN. bring all to life! Geez. snow white is supposed to die.
maybe stories like that plant stupid theories into kid's head. Who knows?
'Mummy, mummy!! I wanna be kissed by prince charming so i wont die. MUMMY MUMMY! BRING ME MY PRINCE CHARMING!'
'Here i come, honey!!'
'Stop playing a fool, dad, you're not prince charming. GEEZ. Adults.'
No..I cant imagine anyone having a conversation like that, so forget it. I mean, you wont catch at 6 year old going 'geez. adults' so yea...just going a bit hay wire here. Excuse me.
Or then again, there could be a conversation like...
'Mummy, when i die, i want you to bring me my prince charming so he can KISS me to life.'
'Dear, thats just a fairy tale, things like that dont happen in real life.'
'Why not!?! it happend to Snow White.' (kids dont know the diff when they're young)
'Snow White is just a character in a movie, hun.'
'I DONT CARE!' *throws tantrum*
Aaaanyway, back to the point. today, i re-read this book. 'the two princesses of bamarre. I love that book. I re-read it three times and cried everytime. Of course waiting a considerable amount of time before rereading it. Its such a great book. Where Addie, one of the princesses who is a total coward, and is really scared for spiders found the courage to travel and find a cure for her sister's death- the grey death. Unlike all fairy tales, her sister was not saved. her sister died in the end, but was given a choice to turn into a fairy. being a fairy meant not having a sister (because fairies cant have sisters...apparently). Im not sure if you're all confused by now, but i'll just go on. so like that...Addie lost her sister, but found courage.
The book was really good. I loved it.
- Addie found courage
- Addie found true love
best of all, the unexpected happened,
- Meryl (her sister) dies
I mean, the ending was set in my mind already. Addie will go find the damn cure and Meryl will survive and yadi-yada. But BOY was i wrong. I love the writer for having that twist in the end. Not letting the sister survive. That was the best. Fantasy, but not so fairy tale like.
the snow white writer would've probably written...
- Meryl did not survive. HOWEVER, this PRINCE CHARMING FROM GOD-KNOWS-WHERE pops into the scene and gives her THE kiss of LIFE. Meryl wakes up and is surprised to find herself SWOOPED up into the hands of WHOEVER THIS PRINCE CHARMING was. and they live happily ever after. The end.
Pfft. Give me a break.
Ps. sorry for insulting the book snow white and the seven dwarf and its writer. I loved that story when i was young, classic...but...i guess now it just seems too happy to me. Then again, thats what kids like right? for everyone to live happily ever after, fairy tales, thinking someday they would have their own to tell. The kids would probably hate the book i read. hah, cuz Meryl died. Oh well...STILL kiss-of-life. PFFT.
oh, i forgot to add, snow white only met the prince at the starting of the show. so whats with all the kissing all of a sudden!?!?!? teaching little kids bad values like: - you can go around kissing strangers you just only met. OMG. BAD BAD BAD classic fairy tale.
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Good doesn't feel too right? Try evil. In every story, there's always this evil person. Evil witch in Snow white, Evil wizard in Aladin, Evil stepmother in Cinderella. Man, the list just goes on. Where do you even get so many evil people when the good guys always win? See, if i was an evil person, i'd jump ship to the good side, coz they always win.
Here's some "real life" problems this evil business has caused. In this case, when an everyday character becomes evil.
Case study, Cinderella. Her stepmother here is portrayed to be an evil person. This "evil" stepmother forces Cinderella to do menial chores while favouring her own children. You see, this demonises our own image of a stepmother. When you say stepmother, the first thing that comes to mind is... evil. No offense to all the good stepmothers out there, if there are any. Arghh... what am i saying, of course there are. You see, how dreadfully intoxicating these fairytales are. They've already gotten to me! Anywayz, this makes life difficult for every new stepmom whose stepchildren have read "Cinderella" or "the wild swans" or any other story which portrays the stepmother in a bad light.
Ok. Evil? Bah... humbug. As i've said earlier, who'd want to be evil anyway.
Classified ad. for the evil witch of the east in The Wizard of Oz: Must look ugly, must be willing to die, more sprcifically, be crushed by a flying house a few chapters into the story.
Not really enticing is it?
yea..same here...
stepmom to me = evil too...
Aiyo...poor snow white...tats fantasy la...remember the story is used to con small kids and even u right when you were young:P...you look like snow white dont u?
okay, I didn't finish reading the whole post 'coz May asked me not to... (I haven't read the book yet)
~'Mummy, mummy!! I wanna be kissed by prince charming so I wont die. MUMMY MUMMY! BRING ME MY PRINCE CHARMING!'~
Wow. If only... Then we could do ANYTHING we wanted and not be afraid of dying. Nice. Wait... But that'll leave the world overpopulated...
unless... ahem! Let's skip that.
~JUST GO ARUND KISSING ALL THE DEAD THEN!~
Right... What'll happen to Prince oh so charming then? Oh my gosh...
Just imagine...
"Kiss my wife! Kiss my wife!!"
"NO! KISS MINE!! MINE!!!"
"KISS MY GRANDMA!"
Well, let's all hope they're all pretty...
*Worst senario*
"Would you... Kiss my grand-daddy?"
Blek. EWW...
!xobile(okay, my sis'll get this...)
**Classified ad. for the evil witch of the east in The Wizard of Oz: Must look ugly, must be willing to die, more specifically, be crushed by a flying house a few chapters into the story.**
wg, WHOEVER YOU ARE(haha...)[ man, trying to hide your identity arr? Plz man, just because you're going to be Brain soon(and probably dun want ppl to know you THEN) doesn't mean you get to act so...so... "important"... ]
Anyway, I think I can take you up on that offer.(Just one thing, make sure that house's light, like a soft toy) I'm evil enough.
Or MAYBE you could ask you know who, who's only 5... keke... :)
Quotes from kawaii onna-
*Worst senario*
"Would you... Kiss my grand-daddy?"
THATS SO FREAKING FUNNY!!
would you kiss my granddaddy!?!
thats rich. ==,
seriously. Hahaaa...
Remember to call me when you die...........
Note: Use the force of the undead.
time traveler's wife.
Li May forced me to leave a comment.... sigh.... anywayz.... I agree that SnowWhite kissing the prince so soon is dangerous for kids.....bad example.
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